Drinking Liberally — Seattle

An election is happening in Washington state, and by now you should have your ballot in hand. So pack up your political questions and opinions and let ’em loose over the beverage of your choice at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

The Department of Homeland Security is readying a plan to expand a program that pays U.S. employers to hire foreign STEM students taught in America, a move that could end up punishing American college grads and even the elderly, according to an immigration think tank.

PuddyCommentary: Sooooooooooo, what company would reject $12,000 to hire them some aliens? The kicker…

DHS, by defining a recent college grad as a student, takes both the worker and the employer out from under payroll taxes — thus penalizing the Social Security and Medicare trust funds directly, and our elders indirectly. Congress did not make this decision, at least not directly; but since foreign students and their employers have privileges denied to citizens and green card holders alike, the bonus has been created.

More PuddyCommentary: Really? They don’t pay payroll taxes while receiving a big gummint handout? “Congress did not make this decision, at least not directly”… so this is one of those Obummer executive directives implemented through DHS like their illegal alien attempts being slapped back by the courts? Of course HA DUMMOCRETINS being the lowest of the LIVs don’t remember this… http://www.prnewswire.com/news.....27960.html

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of an American tech workers union that brought a lawsuit challenging a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulation that permits non-student foreign labor to compete with American workers. The court struck the rule, finding that DHS did not comply with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) when it bypassed the public notice and comment process mandated by the APA. The court also rejected DHS’s assertion that American workers do not have standing to sue when the government implements a rule that increases the potential for more competition in their job market.

Of course Puddy did!

HA DUMMOCRETINS are the LIVs of the NorthWest… Goldy’s NorthWest Division of Lunatic Moonbats!

@1 The court-appointed trustee has done a good job of tracking down and recovering assets, and Madoff’s victims will get about 2/3 of their money back.

Madoff is scum, beyond any doubt. But the fact he contributed money to Democratic politicians doesn’t make him a Democrat. It’s more accurate to say he contributed money to incumbents, which looks like he was trying to buy influence, or maybe just protection from investigation or prosecution, like any smart crook would do.

In any case, Democrats prosecute their crooks, while Republicans protect theirs and sweep their crimes under the rug. That’s the difference between our side and your side. As always, you’re on the wrong side.

After Republicans killed a plan to add $37 million in pre-school funding in April, Bullock recalled thinking that Republicans hated him, not 4 year olds. But he said that he changed his mind after the most recent letter.

“I start to worry that some of them might hate 4 year olds too,” he admitted.

The Republican lawmakers also lashed out. …calling the federal standards “insulting to the private providers who currently, and admirably, provide this service to willing parents.”

But educators have pointed out that families must be below 200 percent of the poverty level to qualify for federally-funded preschools.

In any case, Democrats prosecute their crooks, while Republicans protect theirs and sweep their crimes under the rug.

Really Roger senile? Federal authorities arrested Madoff on December 11, 2008. So those were Obummer’s federal prosecution officials and authorities Roger senile or is that more of your standard horsesASS manure pellets you leave everywhere hoping no one will notice the smell?

Since 1991, Madoff and other individuals connected with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities made campaign contributions totaling $372,100, with about 89 percent of those funds directed to Democrats, according to OpenSecrets.org, the Web site of the Center for Responsive Politics. The majority of the senators and representatives who benefited from these donations were New York-area legislators.

The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself.

Yes, Barack Obama is taking a victory lap in his seventh year in office. Yes, Republicans can’t find a credible candidate to so much as run for speaker of the House. Yes, the GOP presidential field is led by a megalomaniacal reality TV star. All this is true — but rather than lay the foundation for enduring Democratic success, all it’s done is breed a wrongheaded atmosphere of complacence.

PuddyCommentary… On HA DUMMOCRETINS, it’s a wrongheaded atmosphere of incompetence! Puddy been saying this for weeks… “Democrats are currently engaged in a slightly bizarre bidding war between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to see whether Congress in 2017 will reject a legislative agenda that is somewhat to the left of Obama’s or drastically to its left.”

Y’all can’t admit your side is a bunch of losers even with the libtard msm!

@10 “In 2004, Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot, a lawyer in the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), informed her supervisor branch chief Mark Donohue that her review of Madoff found numerous inconsistencies, and recommended further questioning. However, she was told by Donohue and his boss Eric Swanson to stop work on the Madoff investigation, send them her work results, and instead investigate the mutual fund industry. Swanson, Assistant Director of the SEC’s OCIE, had met Shana Madoff in 2003 while investigating her uncle Bernie Madoff and his firm. The investigation concluded in 2005, in 2006 Swanson left the SEC and became engaged to Shana Madoff, and in 2007 the two married. …

“While awaiting sentencing, Madoff met with the SEC’s Inspector General, H. David Kotz, who conducted an investigation into how regulators failed to detect the fraud despite numerous red flags. Madoff said he could have been caught in 2003, but bumbling investigators acted like ‘Lt. Colombo’ and never asked the right questions: ‘I was astonished. They never even looked at my stock records. If investigators had checked with The Depository Trust Company, a central securities depository, it would’ve been easy for them to see. If you’re looking at a Ponzi scheme, it’s the first thing you do.'”

Roger Rabbit Commentary: Oh well, the Chimp administration couldn’t catch Osama bin Laden, either. This may be a case of ineptness and laziness rather than corruption. Somebody was too busy petting goats to mind the store.

Puddy has no sense of shame. The 9/11 attackers flew under the radar on Georgie’s watch. The mastermind eluded capture for 8 years on his watch. Madoff got away with his Ponzi scheme until the very end of Georgie’s watch — and he wasn’t caught, he turned himself in. Georgie fumbled Katrina, failed to rein in Wall Street’s reckless behavior, and presided over serial tainted food scandals. There really was nothing he did right, yet Pudlicker continues to defend him. Is that mental illness, or stupidity, or lack of character? I suspect all three are in play.

I know, I get it, it’s too easy to call. The loon’s head is always exploding.

I notice that the batshit crazy babbling jackass doesn’t want to talk about the ass-kicking Trey Gowdy and his gang of stupes is going to receive from Hillary on Thursday. Understandable. Fucktard Republicans handed her all the rope she’s gonna need to hang them all by their balls.

Uh, no. Madoff confessed to his family, who reported him to authorities, and he turned himself in a couple days later. The Chimp administration did absolutely nothing except turn over the subsequent formality of Madoff’s voluntary guilty plea and sentencing to the incoming Obama administration.

Why? Because this sadministration seems to be more anti-Israel than pro-Israel.

FACTS: – Witness the continual negative comments from Obummer and his sadministration over these past almost seven years. – Witness their ignorance of Netanyahu’s speech at the UN. – Witness how Obummer acolytes tried to sway the Israeli elections earlier this year. – Witness to virulent attacks on Netanyahu when he came to Congress in March. – Witness the moral equivalence from Josh NotSoEarnest every time there are attacks on Israelis.

@25 Bush’s gang didn’t start anything. They ignored Madoff for eight years. The amount of time, effort, and labor they put into investigating and prosecuting him was zero. The sum total of their work on the case consisted of dropping the file on Obama’s desk to process his guilty plea after he turned himself in.

That “what difference does it make” will come back to haunt Heilary now we see Christopher Stevens asked for additional protection back in July 2012 and was rebuffed!

Pressure packed Steve can’t stand it so we see KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO! after KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO! in multiple stoooooooooopid Steve postings everywhere everyday! Heh, the continual head explosions of Steve!

When was the last time anybody saw a House ethics committee run by Republicans investigate a Republican? Remember Doc Hastings? The hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil monkey put in charge of that committee to sweep Republican corruption under the rug?

Right from the start, when the Bill Cosby scandal surfaced, I knew it was not going to bode well for Hillary’s campaign, because young women today have a much lower threshold for tolerance of these matters. The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton’s behavior because he was a Democrat. The Democratic president and administration supported abortion rights, and therefore it didn’t matter what his personal behavior was.

Yes this FACT is not believed by Puddy. Nor is this one…

Absolutely! It was frat house stuff! And Monica got nothing out of it. Bill Clinton used her. Hillary was away or inattentive, and he used Monica in the White House–and in the suite of the Oval Office, of all places. He couldn’t have taken her on some fancy trip? She never got the perks of being a mistress; she was there solely to service him. And her life was completely destroyed by the publicity that followed. The Clinton’s are responsible for the destruction of Monica Lewinsky! They probably hoped that she would just go on and have a job, get married, have children, and disappear, but instead she’s like this walking ghoul.

Ahhh yes those bimbo eruptions are going to continue and the msm can’t hide them. Of course Puddy doesn’t believe any of this because Puddy uses left wrong media more that 10% of the time right Perfessa? Witness the VOX posting above!

1. Bill Cosby drugged and raped lots of women but used his position and power to cover it up. 2. Bill Clinton had consensual sex with Monica Lewinski and, allegedly non-consensual sex with other women. Bill Clinton was nearly removed from is position of power due to this. 3. Some Feminists gave Bill Clinton a pass but not Cosby. 4. Hillary Clinton did not divorce Bill Clinton 5. All of the Republicans running for President see Planned Parenthood and accessable safe abortion as somehting that needs to be destroyed. 6. All Republicans running for President see equal pay laws as unneccesary.

THEREFORE, Feminists will vote for a Republican who is anti-Feminist because something about Hillary being not feminist enough.

Clickbait. Really, Salon author Paglia, a feminist walks into a voting booth and the choice is Hillary or Donald “I marry trophy wives and I like to call fat women dogs and Bimbo” Trump or Dr. Ben “Violence is the end result of Women’s Liberation” Carson and Piddles thinks Hillary has something to worry about with feminists not voting for her. How very cute.

“”I’m withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party’s nominee for the presidency,” Webb said at the National Press Club. He said his views are “not compatible” with the power structure and nominating base of the Democratic Party and that its hierarchy is “not comfortable” with his policies. “How I remain as a voice will depend on what kind of support I’m shown in the coming weeks,” he said, adding, “I’m thinking about all of my options.”

That sort of moralizing pose from Klownservatives is only good anymore for comic relief. I have no doubt that The Fuckwad subscribes to a very strict moral code, denying himself all sorts of petty indulgences and kink (eeeeww). But he certainly won’t hold his elected Teapublican servants to that code.

Elites are who they are. They don’t get to be who they are by fading into the wall paper and giving deference and respect to others. Republicans used to get this. But since the Reagan White House decided to go after the Thumper vote a million years ago, we’ve been subjected to this theater of the absurd. David Vitter anyone?

So the usual media suspects are still up in arms that the President met with “Clock Kid” Ahmed Mohamed. And a bunch of nutters are even more up in arms that Ahmed had his picture taken with Omar Al-Basir because all teenagers ask a head of foreign state everything about their politics, rise to power and what critics say about him before taking a selfie.

Such is the derangement of the right. The right is so invested in never ever being wrong that Ahmed Mohamed MUST be a terrorist. He must have done it on purpose. It couldn’t possibly be that school officials treated him differently than white students because RACISM DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE we have a black president. Texas is perfect on race relations. It MUST BE something else.

And so deep is their hatred of the President that a by all accounts bright kid has no reason at all to be inveted to shake hands with any President on “Astronomy Night” at the White House if we, the right, think he might be a MOOOOOslim!

“See, Ahmed Muhamad, a teenager, is someone we imagine to be a bad guy, an activist, a Muslim. So it was perfectly reasonable to act racist toward him. Harumph. We should be sweeping his treatment by the school under the rug. He deserved it. Harumph!”

So the usual media suspects are still up in arms that the President met with “Clock Kid” Ahmed Mohamed. And a bunch of nutters are even more up in arms that Ahmed had his picture taken with Omar Al-Basir because all teenagers ask a head of foreign state everything about their politics, rise to power and what critics say about him before taking a selfie.

Oh checkmate… His father knows this guy! ANd we see checkmate has no problems with Omar al-Bashir. Al-Bashir is widely known in the United States intelligence community as “the Butcher of Darfur” and is still wanted for war crimes for his part in orchestrating the genocide in Darfur (wherein some 400,000+ have been slaughtered.) That’s no problem with checkmate. A-OK!

So Republicans can no longer claim that GWB (loved his comment today on Ted Cruz though!) kept America safe. They have to step back and start rephrasing what they meant – that GWB kept us safe after 9/11. After 9/11.

Way to try to salvage the bullshit that you pushed on the American people like a drug pusher.

The Problem is though not that the Republican pundits are the dummies, oh contra-ire, but that the people bought it, hook, line and sinker, and are the real dummies. Goes to show you that this Country can be like Nazi Germany, listening to their little Hitlers.

Could show you how Conservatives don’t have minds of their own, but I think they are actually smarter, and just like to play political bullshit just to be the victors to no taxes.

And wow – those college kids are like super-duper, raaaaaacist profile-y Islamophobes.

Did you watch how to make it on the internet checkmate?

DAYUM checkmate you are stoooooooooopid. Like your AEI last week where you slinked away. Wanna review that stooooooooooopidity again? You always checkmate yourself checkmate with innate stoooooooooopidity!

Run to a little read right wing website. That’ll show ’em. The funny thing about those “Man on the street” interviews is how many you have to edit out to get some that prove your point. I should know. I’ve shot some for the old Leno Tonight Show.

BILL MAHER: I want to do an update on the story we covered last week about the fourteen year old boy in Texas who they said invented a clock. Okay, a little update on this. His parents took him out of school and he’s just doing TV now and he’s on like a tour. I’m not anti this kid. I hope this kid has a wonderful life and does great things but the liberals, mostly liberals, you’ll like this, who have glommed on to him as a mascot, are ninnies. Because somebody showed that he did not invent anything. Show the tape of somebody, that this was on the internet…it took 20 seconds for somebody to do what this kid did. He didn’t invent a clock. He took the guts out of a clock radio that he bought in the store and then put it in a pencil box. Okay, this is like pouring Cheerios into a bowl and saying you invented cereal.

You gotta love that Republican who called the kid’s clock “half a bomb.” Add explosives, and voila! a bomb! I suspect I could make a pretty lethal bomb with an alarm clock, a flashlight battery, some wire, and a block of plastic explosive. For a 14-year-old kid, getting the explosive is the tricky part. The rest of us can make it in the kitchen sink.

“Half a bomb.” This from a party that wants to arm everybody over the age of five, and turn every George Zimmerman into an impromptu elementary school guard.

If a kid showed up at a school with a digital kitchen timer would you think they should call the cops because a device that counts down is clearly a bomb.

Well unless he was a Beef Fed Native Texan. Then obviously it’s a timer with no explosives attached.

What about a stopwatch. I’ve seen plenty of seventies tv where the ‘bomb’ was two traffic flares and a stopwatch duct taped together. Ponch and John handled it. I think even Hasselhof and Pam Anderson disarmed one of them.

You won’t hear about this from Goldy. It’s the part of the restaurant number thing and minimum wage increases he won’t talk about.

I guess since lower-income people can’t afford to live in Seattle, it doesn’t matter if the places they can afford to eat at in Seattle are going away. They can always grab an Egg McMuffin when they leave the house in Auburn before heading in.

I get that it’s supposedly performance art, but what kind of ‘artist’ spends three hours each day performing to a regular audience of roughly six, at least one of whom @ 45 is nearly a month behind current events?

@67 The guy having trouble living with it is Ryan. He knows it means he’ll never get the job he really wants, although I don’t think that would happen anyway. In any case, he has Harry Reid’s endorsement, if that helps.

PuddyCommentary: Ain’t it great this is what HA DUMMOCRETINS and others support with their Israeli hatred they post in American papers, libtard blogs, and other e-rag posts? Aren’t y’all so happy now with all the stabbings in Israel?

@50 Yeah, right. With all the people getting shot by hoodlums and lunatics with guns…..let’s go after the IMMIGRANTS!

Ahhh yes the FartyArt moral equivalence argument. Except this guy had how many felony convictions and deportations again?

Did you actually read the Kate Steinle law FartyArt? Yeah, didn’t think so! It’s A-OK for cities to ignore federal law because DUMMOCRETINS are against it. Harry Reid’s comments are stoooooooooopid! Just like Obummer ignoring immigration law because Hey, he’s Obummer! Tell that to the police mother Mary Ann Mendoza whose son was a policeman killed by an illegal alien!

“It’s most important that everyone in this room understand the other team is not the enemy,” the vice president said. “If you treat it as the enemy, there is no way you can ever resolve the problems we have.”

…

“I don’t think my chief enemy is the Republican Party,” he said. “This is a matter of making things work.”

PuddyCommentary: If anything, Joe is genuine, even if Joe is a moron on the topic. Joe has some realistic qualities even if Joe is realistically wrong. Butt here, Joe is delivering the smackdown on Heilary. There is nothing Heilary says that isn’t vetted and approved by the DNC ladies who are working on the Clinton Coronation Chorus Procedure (CCCP). You can imagine all lines delivered by Clinton are being read from a teleprompter like Obummer uses TOTUS for all speeches!

Wow, the batshit crazy loon was spewing unintelligible streams of hate until late last night and now before 5:00AM he is cranked up and spewing yet more unintelligible streams of hate. Must suck being batshit insane and full of hate 24/7.

@77, I gotta offer a quick clarification. The CBS story reports:“… the teen who was arrested over bringing a clock to school which school officials mistook for a bomb…” Elsewhere in the story the claim is repeated.

There is absolutely no reason to conclude or stipulate to the idea that authorities suspected the clock was or might be a bomb. In all the weeks of reporting, in all the sworn statements, in all the police reports, there are absolutely no descriptions of these events that support any such conclusions. They did not refrain from handling the clock. They did not remove themselves, staff, students, or other parties from the immediate vicinity of the clock. They did not order an evacuation of the building or initiate a fire alarm. They did not order a response by an explosive disposal team. The clock was never even examined by an explosive expert. They kept the clock in the school, in the room with staff and the student, near other staff and students. And they proceeded to interrogate the boy about the clock in the presence of the clock, indicating throughout absolutely no perception of danger from the clock itself.

Any claim that anyone perceived the clock to be dangerous is not a credible claim given these facts.

They did not treat the clock as if it was dangerous. They treated the boy as if he was dangerous.

@83 That’s quite an extrapolation there, Ace. Did anyone ever tell you that France doesn’t have a First Amendment, and European countries don’t have as much freewheeling free speech as we do? WTF does a French prosecution have to do with America and Demcorats? Nothing. More proof that you were the stupid kid who made all that racket trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.

CNN Newsroom host Carol Costello was taken aback when Patricia Smith revealed in conversation that she actually didn’t know much about what happened to her son — despite the fact that the Benghazi attack occurred three years ago. Smith responded in kind, claiming that although Clinton promised to “get back to” her following her son’s funeral ceremony in Washington, D.C., no one had since contacted her on the matter.

Republicans have too many candidates, Democrats not enough. Interesting race. Only two candidates are qualified to be president, and they’re both Democrats. We’d better hope and pray (if you’re into that sort of thing) one of them gets elected. Flying Spaghetti Monster help us if one of the GOP clowns gets in. It’ll be deja vue all over again.

@104, So long as the GOP process continues to veer away from the more conventional candidates like Bush and Rubio, I’m not going to panic. To me, the extremism and xenophobia of the GOP front runners is a big plus for Democrats, especially Clinton.

While both party’s nominees may face a GOTV challenge among moderate swing state voters this year, I’m guessing that opposing a nominee like Trump will prove a powerful motivator among younger, poorer, less white voters in a general election. The trick will be targeted early registration drives in key states and districts – something the Clinton campaign is very well prepared and equipped for.

More Proof That Netanyahu Is An Irresponsible Over-The-Top Wingnut Who Needs A Stern Spanking

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked an uproar in Israel on Wednesday for suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader convinced the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate 6 million Jews. Holocaust experts and survivors slammed Netanyahu’s comments as historically inaccurate and serving the interests of Holocaust deniers by lessening the responsibility of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Critics also said the statement amounts to incitement against modern-day Palestinians in the midst of a wave of violent unrest and high tensions.”

Roger Rabbit Commentary: The latter, of course, is Netanyahu’s real objective. I’m not knocking Israel, only its leader. The United States has long been a staunch ally of Israel, is now, and should remain so. But that country is led by an aggressive, lying, wingnut troublemaker in the mold of Dick Cheney, and American liberals shouldn’t cater to Netanyahu any more than we should should to the likes of Cheney. We should put him in his place, and Obama, to his credit, has tried to do so, although arguably not enough. The U.S. has worked hard for years to ratchet down tensions in the Mideast, and someday achieve peace there, and with Israeli-Palestinian tensions at boiling point right now, the last thing we need is a wingnut Israeli politician stirring the pot and inciting the Palestinians. If we’re going to support this guy’s country with our tax dollars (Israel is by far the biggest recipient of U.S. foreign aid), let’s at least put some pressure on him to tone down his rhetoric and behave a little more responsibly.

@106 Blocked? You? Only in your paranoid and delusional mind. You’ve been using this blog as your personal sewer for years, and the worst ever done to you is a few of your off-topic rants have been deleted.

@109 Don’t flatter yourself. Nobody on this planet is interested in making even a half-assed effort to shut you up. You’re nothing more than a car alarm that won’t go off. Press “ignore” button and problem is fixed.

But I’m kind of tired or dumb founded why Democrats going along with the notion that income inequality is a result of the police of the last 7 years. Every time we talk about the current economy or the improvement since the almost great depression that it was we have to footnote it with a but. The but being that there is income inequality. I’m not disputing or denying that income inequality exists, but it start from 2001? Why do Democrats go along with discrediting the progress in the last 7 years with the but, as if it is because of the policies of the Obama Administration. I understand why Republicans like to say it. OK – maybe put some blame or accountability for the Obama administration for not improving or if the inequality has gotten much greater….but did it really start with his inauguration?

Maybe income inequality was already started 30-40 years ago when we transitioned into a service economy. We went from Agriculture to Industrial/Manufacturing to a Service Economy. This has been going on for a couple or more decades now. Did it really start with the Bush Administration or prior to that?

The world changes and so does the economy, it is now a global economy. The US Economy wasn’t the same 50 or more years ago. Are we experiencing something more than just a relatively unchanged government policies?

Did we have hedge fund managers who made millions and billions 30 years ago? Aren’t they part of the reason why we have income inequality? Aren’t GWB tax cuts create more income inequality?

We are talking about Robots replacing people and taking jobs away. Right Steve. Does that mean greater income inequality in the future? Is that Obama’s doing? Do we lower wages, as republican would like, so we don’t have the need for Robots? Wouldn’t that create more income inequality?

Now, I’m not an economist, nor the smartest guy out there, all I do all day is create schedules for construction jobs, and even that I don’t do the best, although I get better every day, and can outperform everyone in the office I work in, or am one of a few out of 3000 people in the company I work for that can do the jobs….but anyways….

Why do Democrats let Republicans control what is to be said for what Obama accomplished with this economy? I don’t get it. Why don’t Democrats fight back? This is like letting them get away with saying GWB kept us Safe. Except that is entirely different – out of respect for the office and the moral of this Country, I think it would have been wrong to fight that fight. Although the Donald has put Republicans in quite the pickle. Now Republicans have to correct that and say “after 9/11 he kept us safe”.

What the fuck. Can Democrats get some brains. Can’t reporters and the media, do some digging and really find out why there is income inequality instead of keep saying it. Maybe if they find out why, then they can figure out how to fix i….but I’m sure the fix isn’t too hard. One thing is probably raise the minimum wage and tax the fucking rich through their nose. And I say that with the notion that I’m a fairly high wage earner and will be subject to those high taxes myself….all I know, is if you give me a million or more than a million more, you can keep more of it in taxes too.

Come on Democrats fight fire with fire. Don’t let Republicans say the shit or paint it the way they want it. They have no plan to change income inequality…they are the ones on the balance beam that are keeping the beam from being somewhat balanced (and I’m not suggesting it be balanced, just not so heavily unbalanced).

Instead we have to focus and spend time on who is going to speaker of the house – who gives a shit (i don’t mean that literally – I just mean that we could be spending better time with trying to figure out more pressing issues).

Republicans are wasting out time and money talking about and fighting same sex marriage, abortion, planned parenthood, benghazi, emails, who kept us safe 8 years ago (who kept us safe from 2009 to present)?

Oh and don’t forget clock boy. Did he move to Qatar? Oh my, he moved to Qatar.

What about poverty? In 2009, when Obama took office, the black poverty rate was 25.8 percent. As of 2014, according to Pew Research Center, the black poverty rate was 27.2 percent.

What about income? CNNMoney says, “Minority households’ median income fell 9 percent between 2010 and 2013, compared to a drop of only 1 percent for whites.” The Financial Times wrote last October: “Since 2009, median non-white household income has dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s survey of consumer finances. As a whole, median incomes fell by 5 percent. But by the more telling measure of net wealth — assets minus liabilities — the numbers offer a more troubling

What about poverty? In 2009, when Obama took office, the black poverty rate was 25.8 percent. As of 2014, according to Pew Research Center, the black poverty rate was 27.2 percent.

What about income? CNNMoney says, “Minority households’ median income fell 9 percent between 2010 and 2013, compared to a drop of only 1 percent for whites.” The Financial Times wrote last October: “Since 2009, median non-white household income has dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s survey of consumer finances. As a whole, median incomes fell by 5 percent. But by the more telling measure of net wealth — assets minus liabilities — the numbers offer a more troubling

So Carson has now got a plan to target economic opportunity for minority households? That’s great news! How will this work? Targeted tax credits like the EITC? (Where will that money come from, I wonder) Or maybe economic opportunity grants in low income communities? I think it’s wonderful that Carson is now promoting this kind of intervention to help out minority households. But I gotta admit, it came as a bit of surprise to me. With the 2013 sequestration cuts made permanent, and a no tax increase pledge on the books, I just don’t see how Carson will pull it off without taking money away from low income whites. Is that his plan? Wow. That’d really be something. I’ll let everyone here in all-white hill country know. Thanks Fuckwad.

The Daily Beast writer doesn’t get it. DUMMOCRETIN political bias is BIG TIME on college campi. Here is what Dr Carson would do with the Dept of Ed. “It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....leges.html

Carson would call these Ward Churchill professors on their bias. Carson would monitor University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler and her coon of the year commentary on blacks whom she disagrees with then brag she’s untouchable because she has tenure. Or University of Michigan communications professor and department chair Susan Douglas who says “It’s Okay to Hate Republicans.”

@129, About time! Freedom of expression needs some fixin’! And who better to regulate our thoughts and ideas than federal bureaucrats. I’ll make sure all the local GOP delegates and County officers here in Hill country know all about Dr. Carson’s big plans to punish educators who fail to conform. Thanks, Fuckwad!

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